FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware (nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has issued a warning to UK online banking consumers to guard against the possibility of having been infected by the Dridex malware, which spreads via macros in infected Microsoft documents and is currently estimated to have cost £20mn to UK consumers. The NCA says that it is working with the FBI and several European authorities in a concerted campaign to take down the botnet behind the current crop of infections. Dridex is a derivative of the Cridex strain of banking malware, which itself stole many techniques from the GameOver Zeus malware package.

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Re: What kind of headline is that?

[Anonymous Coward]

Right. The real story is Word macros are still an attack vector. That's fucking sad. It's been 20+ years and they just remove the broke feature that nobody uses except to infect others. At least with Flash they have to come up with a new exploit every now and then. With Word macros, there is no exploit, you can just infect all you want.